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The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka


Synopsis: The Metamorphosis
is the most celebrated novel by Franz Kafka and one of the most important in the history of literature. Unceremoniously, the text puts the reader in front of a traveling salesman - the famous Gregor Samsa - transformed into a monstrous insect. From there, the story is told with a realism that associates the unexpected and the unbelievable sense of humor to what is tragic, grotesque and cruel in the human condition - all in style transparent and perfect master of that unmistakable universal fiction. My review:

Some things to think about the work Metamorphosis: 1. Kafka exposes, through the description of labor relations referring to Gregor Samsa, the way the work "massification" undermines and degrades the individual's identity as a human being and full transforming agent of society in which it is inserted, reducing it to a condition of mere disposable gear capitalist machinery [sale]. It is therefore a incisive criticism, however subtly, against capitalism and passive submission - or inevitable - the man the rules of the aforementioned system. From a broader perspective, encompassing not only the operation, but the oppression of which man is subjected as a result of packaging and subjugation dictated by society (represented by the fam ; read) and his conventionalism / hypocritical moralism.
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The frigid and almost indifferent manner with which the relatives Gregor Samsa treated it may not necessarily lack of love, but a reflection of their own subsequent behavior "mischaracterized" it - as a response to his own imprisonment - or the direct result dehumanizing capitalism itself.


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There are multiple interpretations, also on my part, about the metamorphosis undergone by Gregor Samsa, the allegorical nature. Recalling that Kafka "translated" - or encrypted - so unique and dense, through metaphors, the complexity of modern man - or even any time, hence its timelessness - after falling into a chasm of unrelenting uncertainties, absurd, disturbances and questions of all kinds. 4.
Interpretation 1: The monstrous insect in which Gregor Samsa is transformed as a result of a metamorphosis, decodes as a physical or mental disability, making the individual incapable and / or discredited for compliance certain tasks, therefore regarded as useless for work and, consequently, to capitalism. It is also seen as a strange and inept in the eyes of family and society, isolating themselves gradually. In fact, I look to them for a detail that shows the intensely bizarre genius and sensibility peculiar Kafka's Gregor Samsa transforms into a bug. Now, what a sensation the insect in question immediately? Strangeness or repulsion. Exactly what causes a human being in these three conditions presented here. The interpretation that the insect is the physical manifestation of the state in which humans feel (= insect insignificance) is also great, but contradictory interpretations shown below (insect = difference, social awkwardness). However, Kafka, among other great authors, allows wide releases, "translations" of his literature. 5. Interpretation 2: The mutation of Gregor Samsa would be the transformation moral and psychological integrity of an individual who acquires new beliefs and / or ideology, not fitting the standards of the society they live in and being rebuffed.

6. Interpretation 3: This transmutation of a grotesque man in insect symbolizes specifically conversion to Marxism, the political-economic ideology in vogue at the time, thus condemning capitalism and refusing to work. Consequently, it is rejected by his too and had a "laid off" in the family.
Other interpretations are equally acceptable and consistent. The literature is always loaded with metaphor and subjectivity. Review written on 05/03/2009.

Debate over the work.